Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. Zim

General Features Zwiki XWiki Zim
Version
0.61
18.7.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private users, small teams
Hosting Features Zwiki XWiki Zim
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki XWiki Zim
Operating System
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
None
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Zwiki XWiki Zim
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki XWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
File permissions
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki XWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zwiki XWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki XWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Threaded
No
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Zwiki XWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Features Zwiki XWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
No
Scripting
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Zwiki XWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics Zwiki XWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Zwiki XWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki XWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki XWiki Zim
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki XWiki Zim
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
Images
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
not implemented
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
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